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Friends' Commemoration of the 

Bi-Centenary 

of the Death of 

William Penn 

1718-1918 





Penn in \'()uth 



Penn in Old Age 



In response to the Proclamation of the Governor of Pennsylvania; to 
take place at Friends Meeting House, at Fourth and Arch Streets, 
Philadelphia, at S P. M., Sixth Day, Eleventh Month S, ii}i8, 
on the Anniversary Day of Penn s First Coming to Pennsylvania 

Charles Francis )enkins, Chairman 

Isaac Sharpless Wimjam P. Bancroft 

/ "iiC- Chair ?nt'ii 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

Albert Cook Mvers, Chair ifrnn 
Francis R. Tavlor, Sc'cretars-7^rfasiirer 

Charles Francis fenkins William 1. Hull 

Isaac Sharpless William B. Harvev 

William T. Elkinton Lucv B. Roberts 

Amelia Mott Gummere 



Morgan Bunting 
Ravner W. Kelsev 
I. Barnard \\ alton 



GENER 

William P. Bancroft 
Benjamin F. Battin 
J. Henry Bartlett 
Elizabeth Powell Bond 
|oel Borton 
Morgan Bunting 
Isaac H. Clothier 
Morris L. Clothier 
William W. Comfort 
Rowland Comlv 
Gilbert Cope 
William T. Elkinton 
Henrv Ferris 
Jesse C. Green 
Amelia Mott Gummere 
Richard Mott Gummere 
William B. Harvev 



AL COMMITTEE OF FK 

Walter W. Haviland 
[ohn Russell Haves 
William I. Hull' 
Robert M. Jannev 
Charles Francis [enkins 
Rufus M. Jones 
Ravner W. Kelsev 
Arthur N. Leeds 
Horace Mather Lippincott 
Albert Cook Mvers 
A. Mitchell Palmer 
E. Pusey Passmore 
Edward A. Pennock 
Joseph Rhoads 
Nathaniel Richardson 
Horace Roberts 
Luc\- B. Roberts 



I ENDS 

Alfred G. Scattergood 
Isaac Sharpless 
William C. Sproul 
Frederic H. Strawbridge 
Joseph Swain 
Francis R. Tavlor 
Allen C. Thomas 
Cieorge Vaux, [r. 
George A. Walton 
J. Barnard Walton 
Edmund C. Webster 
Mary H. Whitson 
Asa S. Wing 
George W'ood 
Herbert P. Worth 
Caroline ). Worth 
Stanle\' R. ^'arnall 



./// Interested are Invited to he Present 



Site of House, Ruscombe, Berkshire, 
England, where William Penn died, 
8th Month lo, 1718 (New Style) 



Friends' Meeting House, huilt 1688, 

tjnd Penn's Grave, at Jordans, 

Buckinghamshire, England 



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Program 



The program being already full, there ivill not be time for other speakers 

This Penn Memorial Meeting is naturally to be retrospective in character, devoting 
itself to those aspects of the lite and times ot Penn to which all concerned can give 
appreciative and harmonious consideration. 

OPENING REMARKS, by the Chairman, Charles Francis 
Jenkins, Pres. of the Site and Relic Society of Germantown. 

GREETING, from William Penn's titular successor, the Gov- 
ernor of Pennsylvania, Martin G. Brumbaugh. 

MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM PENN BY CONTEMPOR- 
ARY ENGLISH FRIENDS, read by Jean Barclay 
Penn-Gaskell Hancock, of Philadelphia. 

A direct descendant of William and Gulielma ( Springett ) Penn, and of 
Robert Barclav, the Apologist. 

MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM PENN BY CONTEMPOR- 
ARY PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS, read by Robert R. 
Logan, of Philadelphia. 

A direct descendant ot Penn's taithtul triend and secretarv, fames Logan. 

"THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM PENN," by 
Albert Cook Myers, of Moylan, Pa., Editor of the Works, 
and President of the Friends' Historical Society of England. 

HISTORICAL ADDRESS, by Isaac Sharpless, LL.D., Ex- 
President of Haverford College. 

POEM, by John Russell Hayes, Librarian, Swarthmore College. 

WILLIAM PENN AND RELIGIOUS TOLERA HON IN 
PENNSYLVANIA. 

Four-minute remarks from rcprcsentatii'es of those other 
religious denominatio/is Penn zcelcomeJ to his Province : 

THE BAPTISTS, Russell H. Conwell, Pastor of the Baptist Temple and Presi- 
dent of Temple University, Philadelphia. 

THE ROMAN CATHOLICS, The Archbishop of Philadelphia, D. J. Dougherty. -l- 

THE EPISCOPALIANS, Floyd W.Tomkins, of Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia. 

THE JEWS, Joseph Krauskopf, ot Keneseth Israel Temple, Philadelphia. 

THE LUTHERANS, Edwin Heyl Delk, Minister of St. Matthew's Lutheran 
Church, Philadelphia. 

THE MENNONITES, Harry H. Snavely, Willow Street, Lancaster County, Pa. 
A descendant of Hans Herr, the well-known early Mennonite settler of Lancaster County 

THE PRESBYTERIANS, William Henry Roberts, LL.D., of Philadelphia. 

Stated Clerk of the General Assemblv ot the Presbyterian Church in the 
U. S. A., and formerlv Moderator ot the General Assembly. 

THE REFORMED, Paul Seibert Leinbach, of Philadelphia, Editor of the Reformed 
Church Messenger, * Has been asked to speak. 



A LOAN Exhibit of Relics, Deeds and other Manuscripts relating 
onlv to William Penn and his Familv, with the co-operation ot 
the PViends' Historical Society of Philadelphia, will be on view in 
the Meeting House the evening of the Commemoration and will be 
fully safeguarded. The loan of such Penn mementoes is solicited and 
may be sent to the care of William B. Harvey, 304 Arch Street 




William Penn's SiciNATURE 

ivitJi Ills dttrsti/ig 

Great Seal of the Province of Pennsylvania 

bearing his Coat of Arms in wax, on the 
original parchment deed, executed at Phila- 
delphia, 8 Mo. (October) 18, 1701 (Old 
^iy\e), for t lie ground at Friends' Meeting 
House, Fourth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia 



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